Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.

I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it.

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.

Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?

It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.

I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it.

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

Maybe, now and then, we have to give up a portion of our kingdoms--the things we hold dearest--to find what it is God wants for us.

The truth be told, Lord, I don't like you very much right now.

Men fight like men. Women fight like unchained demons.

Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.

Adequacy is sufficient.

Oh, if we would only remember who God is!

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

I think [Pope] Francis intends to forge ahead with his reform agenda.